Improvement in door weather-strips



UNITED STATES WVM. H. HURLBUT AND J. W.

PATENT OFFICE.

SHARP, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4|,6'2IL dated February 16, 1864.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, W. H. HURLBUT and J. W. SHARP, of Elgin, in the county ofKane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Weather-Strips and in the Manner of Applying the Same to Doors; and We do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure lis an inner face view of a door with ourinvention applied toit; Fig. 2, atransverse vertical section of the same, taken in the line x x, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to a new and improved Weather-strip arrangement for preventing storms from beating underneath doors; and it consists in they employment or use of a semicylindrical rod or strip hung on pivots and fitted in the upper part of a Water'passage in the sill and arranged in such a manner as to iit into a groove in the lower edge of the door when the latter is closed, all being arranged in such a manner as to effect the desired end;

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, We will proceed to describe it.

A represents a door which is hung on hinges in the usual Way,and has a slot, a, made in its under side and extending its Whole width.

B `represents the door sill, which has an opening, b, made in it, and extending the whole length of the sill. In the upper part or orifice ofthis opening thereis hung upon pivots c a semi-cylindrical strip, C, the dat side and a portion of the rounded side of which are covered with metal d. This strip C extends the whole length of the opening b, and the strip, when not actuated or moved by any extraneous force, will, by its own gravity, adjust itself so that its dat face or side will be uppermost and close the opening to prevent the admis sion of dust and dirt therein, as shownin red in Fig. .1. The sill B is rather higher at the outer than at the inner side of the door, the latter, when closed, abutting against a shoulder, e, as shown in Fig. 2, and the strip C is provided at one end with an arm, f, Which projects upward in curved form, and by the side g of the door-frame, against which side the door A closes, and to the lower edge of the door A there is attached a projection, h, which as the door closes cornes in contact withthe arm f of the strip C and turns said strip4 so that one of its angles will project upward into the slot a in the lower edge of the door, the rounded surface of the strip facing in the room, the dat or upper surface facing outward or to the weather, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

By this arrangement it will be seen that Wind and water in impinging against the fiat surface of the stripG will be deflected down through the opening b, as indicated vby the arrows in Fig. 2, the Water escaping from underneath the sill, a passage being prepared for exit.

We Would remark that one of the pivots c of the strip C may be fitted in a slot, t', in the side g of the door-frame to admit of the strip being removed when necessary, and said pivot may be retained in position by a plate, D, attached to the side g by a pivot,j.

The device is extremely simple and efficient and may be applied at a small cost.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The strip C, in combination with the'opening or passage b in the door-sill B and the slot a in the lower edge of the door A, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WM. H. HURLBU'I. J. W'. SHARP.

Vitnesses DAVID HUNTER, A. RAYMOND. 

